Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate Review – Keepin’ It Cool

Thermaltake is taking us from Extreme to Ultimate with its new Water 3.0 closed-loop CPU water cooling solution. This brings us up to three 120mm fans, a doubling of the cooling surface, and a more powerful pump. This makes it the biggest and strongest Water offering yet. Will this effort bring prefab water cooling to new heights?

I have been building custom water cooling PCs for the past 8 years now. There are a lot of things that I love and hate about it, the biggest con being the cost. This cost includes the pump, reservoir, tubing, fittings, water blocks, coolant and maybe water cooled components with custom water blocks out of the box.

After putting all the time into finding the parts needed, we can’t forget about what has to go into setting up the tubing, priming the coolant, and checking for leaks. This really hampers one’s ability to quickly turn a system around when you buy new gear or need to replace, well, anything. However, when all of it is finished, the benefits can be spectacular.

There have been many attempts to mitigate the cost and time needed to achieve the benefits of water cooling, most notably by using a closed-loop system. Some custom water cooling builders would say a closed loop system has too many limitations, mainly that the heat displacement isn’t as efficient, or silent, or that they are a one trick pony by providing cooling to only one component. While the latter may be an undeniable truth, Thermaltake has introduced the Water 3.0Water 3.0Water 3.0 Ultimate to ensure the former problems are a thing of the past.

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